{"id":3542,"date":"2016-11-12T14:54:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T13:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3542"},"modified":"2016-11-12T14:54:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T13:54:27","slug":"the-hip-hop-community-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3542\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hip-Hop Community to the Rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3523\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The lunatic fringe of the American Left appear to be making the same mistake by thinking that their views are mainstream, and if the moderate Democrats are not careful they could find their party is also captured by hardcore elements \u2013 the Bernie Sanders mob, crazed college students, mental feminists, etc. \u2013 and find themselves elbowed out into the political wilderness indefinitely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/catallaxyfiles.com\/2016\/11\/12\/michael-moores-idiots-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catallaxy Files<\/a> I have come across Michael Moore&#8217;s post-election <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/3059613\/michael-moore-reveals-second-set-of-steps-to-his-post-election-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">action plan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Must quickly and decisively form an opposition movement, the likes of which hasn\u2019t been seen since the 1960s. I will do my part to help lead this as I\u2019m sure many others (Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, MoveOn, the hip-hop community, DFA, etc.) will, too. The core of this opposition force will be fueled by young people who, as with Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, don\u2019t tolerate b.s. and are relentless in their resistance to authority. They have no interest in compromising with racists and misogynists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Momentum_(organisation)\" target=\"_blank\">Momentum<\/a> all over again, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I said: The lunatic fringe of the American Left appear to be making the same mistake by thinking that their views are mainstream, and if the moderate Democrats are not careful they could find their party &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3542\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3543,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions\/3543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}